Paul Hudson

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Paul Hudson
Born	Paul David Hudson February 27, 1971(1971-02-27) Keighley
Education	Newcastle University
Residence	Shadwell
Employer	BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
Occupation	Weather presenter and climate change correspondent
Years active	1997-
Spouse(s)	Nicola Hudson
Children	2 daughters
Official website
Notable works and roles
Look North from Leeds Look North from Hull

Paul David Hudson (born 27 February 1971, in Keighley, West Yorkshire) is a weather presenter for BBC Yorkshire and BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England.

Contents 1 Education 2 Career 2.1 Television 2.2 BBC climate change correspondent 2.3 Radio 2.4 Wetwang public office 2.5 Publications 3 Love-hate relationship with Christa Ackroyd 4 Personal life 5 See also 6 References 7 External links 7.1 Climate change 7.2 News items 7.3 Video clips

[edit] Education

His parents bought him his first 'kids weather centre' when he was seven. He went to the Brontë Middle School and Oakbank School on Oakworth Road in Keighley. He has a first-class degree in Geophysics and Planetary Physics from the University of Newcastle. He was the only person in his class from school to get a first class degree. His early memories of local weather forecasting came from fellow Yorkshireman Bob Rust.

[edit] Career

[edit] Television

He can be seen on both editions of the regional news programme Look North, from Leeds (serving North, West and South Yorkshire and the North Midlands) and Hull (serving East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and north Norfolk) where he has enjoyed regular sparring with presenter Peter Levy since the programme began in 2002. He returned to the BBC Yorkshire weather centre from the Met Office's old home of Bracknell in 1997 when Darren Bett left to present national forecasts.

[edit] BBC climate change correspondent

Although most BBC forecasters are not directly employed by the BBC, but by the MOD's Met Office, since 2007 Paul is now a full-time member of BBC staff, not the Met Office, acting as an environmental and climate change expert. He gives talks on the subject to local organisations and schools.

[edit] Radio

He can also be heard on BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio Sheffield, BBC Radio York, BBC Radio Humberside and BBC Radio Lincolnshire and has appeared on BBC One's Morning Show.

[edit] Wetwang public office

In May 2006, Paul was elected honorary Mayor of Wetwang. This post was previously occupied by Richard Whiteley.

Preceded by Richard Whiteley

Mayor of Wetwang May 2006-

Succeeded by Incumbent

[edit] Publications

Paul has written several books, published by Great Northern.

[edit] Love-hate relationship with Christa Ackroyd

A favourite trick is to refer to an item in the news with any unglamourous attributes being fervently compared to the newsreader in situ.

• After a story about an 11 foot python on the run in Sheffield on 27 June 2003, he said Christa was big fat and slimy. This was featured in The Sun.
• In December 2006, after Christa had come back from holiday with a perma-tan, he made sure she knew how orange she looked, comparing her to racing car air-spray paint.
• In reference to the changing of the clocks during October 2008, Christa commented on being able to receive an extra hour of beauty sleep. About this, Hudson remarked that she would need a lot more than one hour, leaving the presenters laughing over the end credits.

[edit] Personal life

Paul got married in Huddersfield in July 2003 to Nicola (née Shaw), who also works on Look North as a reporter in Hull. They live in Shadwell, West Yorkshire. He has two daughters, Eloise, born in April 2005, and Megan, born in November 2007. He is conscious of getting a good work-life balance, and would not sacrifice a comfortable private life for his work. It is possibly because of this that he frequently appears to remorselessly criticise Peter Levy for his less-than-average domestic/family arrangements.

Paul's older brother, Richard, is a chartered accountant. His mother has worked on the Keighley News as a journalist.

He enjoys sea fishing, playing golf (he used to play at Riddlesden Golf Club), cricket (he played for Ingrow St Johns in the Craven League). He supports Bradford City, having a twenty-five-year season ticket, and was trapped in the stand that caught fire in the Bradford City disaster of 1985^[1]. This gave him a short-lived version of posttraumatic stress disorder.

[edit] See also

• Weather forecasting

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Look North biography
• BBC Weather
• Cartoon of Paul and Peter by Mablethorpe's Darwin Lacey
• Webchat with Paul about Yorkshire & Humber's Seven Wonders
• TV News Room
• Extreme Weather with Paul Hudson
• Drivetime feature
• The predicted weather for Leeds
• Nicola Hudson

[edit] Climate change

• Climate Broadcasters Network - Europe
• Climate Change on Inside Out in March 2007
• Cool kids for a Cool Climate
• Yorkshire & Humber Climate Change
• Climate Change presentation (PDF)
• Climate change talk at the University of Leeds in November 2009

[edit] News items

• Daily Mail September 2009
• Opening the Cloud Bar, the world's first cloudspotting area in April 2009 at Anderby Creek in Lincolnshire run by the Cloud Appreciation Society
• Skegness Standard March 2009
• Yorkshire Post August 2008
• Yorkshire Evening Post April 2007
• Becoming Mayor of Wetwang in 2006
• Son of Prescott, a BBC Look North editor, proposes to his girlfriend Roz Greene during the Look North weather forecast in November 2002

[edit] Video clips

• Climate Change talk at the National Carbon Action Conference Conference in 2009
• Christa tries to say he's cheap as chips (YouTube)
• Paul visits Broom in Rotherham to see the viewer who won him for a day in May 2007
• Paul's latest weather forecast